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      1 Installation is supported from several media types, including:
      2 	AmigaDOS HD partitions
      3 	Tape
      4 	NFS partitions
      5 	FTP
      6 	NetBSD partitions, if doing an upgrade.
      7 
      8 The install or upgrade miniroot filesystem needs to be transferred
      9 to the NetBSD swap partition.  This can be done from AmigaDOS in
     10 the case of a new install or upgrade, or from NetBSD when doing an
     11 upgrade.  See the "Preparing your System for NetBSD Installation"
     12 section for details.
     13 
     14 The steps necessary to prepare the distribution sets
     15 for installation depend on which method of installation
     16 you choose.  The various methods are explained below.
     17 
     18 To prepare for installing via an AmigaDOS partition:
     19 
     20 	To install NetBSD from an AmigaDOS partition, you need to
     21 	get the NetBSD distribution sets you wish to install
     22 	on your system on to an AmigaDOS partition.  All of the
     23 	set_name.xx pieces can be placed in a single directory
     24 	instead of separate ones for each distribution set.  This
     25 	will also simplify the installation work later on.
     26 
     27 	Note where you place the files you will need this later.
     28 
     29 	Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next
     30 	step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk.
     31 
     32 To prepare for installing via a tape:
     33 
     34 	To install NetBSD from a tape, you need to somehow
     35 	get the NetBSD filesets you wish to install on
     36 	your system on to the appropriate kind of tape,
     37 	in tar format.
     38 
     39 	If you're making the tape on a UN*X system, the easiest
     40 	way to do so is:
     41 
     42 		tar cvf <tape_device> <files>
     43 
     44 	where "<tape_device>" is the name of the tape device
     45 	that describes the tape drive you're using (possibly
     46 	something like /dev/nrst0, but we make no guarantees 8-).
     47 	If you can't figure it out, ask your system administrator.
     48 	"<files>" are the names of the "set_name.nnn" files
     49 	which you want to be placed on the tape.
     50 
     51 	Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next
     52 	step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk.
     53 
     54 To prepare for installing via an NFS partition:
     55 
     56 	NOTE: this method of installation is recommended
     57 	      only for those already familiar with using
     58 	      the BSD network-manipulation commands and
     59 	      interfaces.  If you aren't, this documentation
     60 	      should help, but is not intended to be
     61 	      all-encompassing.
     62 
     63 	Place the NetBSD software you wish to install into
     64 	a directory on an NFS server, and make that directory
     65 	mountable by the machine which you will be installing
     66 	NetBSD on.  This will probably require modifying the
     67 	/etc/exports file of the NFS server and resetting
     68 	mountd, acts which will require superuser privileges.
     69 	Note the numeric IP address of the NFS server and of
     70 	the router closest to the the new NetBSD machine,
     71 	if the NFS server is not on a network which is
     72 	directly attached to the NetBSD machine.
     73 
     74 	Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next
     75 	step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk.
     76 
     77 To prepare for installing via FTP:
     78 
     79 	NOTE: this method of installation is recommended
     80 	      only for those already familiar with using
     81 	      the BSD network-manipulation commands and
     82 	      interfaces.  If you aren't, this documentation
     83 	      should help, but is not intended to be
     84 	      all-encompassing.
     85 
     86 	The preparations for this method of installation
     87 	are easy: all you have to do is make sure that
     88 	there's some FTP site from which you can retrieve
     89 	the NetBSD installation when it's time to do
     90 	the install.  You should know the numeric IP
     91 	address of that site, the numeric IP address of
     92 	your nearest router if one is necessary
     93 
     94 	Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next
     95 	step in the installation process, preparing your hard disk.
     96 
     97 If you are upgrading NetBSD, you also have the option of installing
     98 NetBSD by putting the new distribution sets somewhere in your existing
     99 file system, and using them from there.  To do that, you must do the
    100 following:
    101 
    102 	Place the distribution sets you wish to upgrade somewhere in
    103 	your current file system tree.  At a bare minimum, you must
    104 	upgrade the "base" binary distribution, and so must put the
    105 	"base11" set somewhere in your file system.  If you wish,
    106 	you can do the other sets, as well, but you should NOT upgrade
    107 	the "etc" distribution; the "etc" distribution contains system
    108 	configuration files that you should review and update by hand.
    109 
    110 	Once you have done this, you can proceed to the next step in
    111 	the upgrade process, actually upgrading your system.
    112